Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-26
NoarHwEsr KANSAS.
Railroad, Real Estate and Build
ing Boom Reaches This
Section.

Section.
The following from the pen Of Harr!
/ Root, in the AtchisOn Champion;
A writer in u Kansas City paper says
Smith Center has always been the
/ county seat Of Smith county, This il
an error The county was organized
/ in 1872, and at the first meeting Of tbs
commissioners, which occurred March
9Th, of that year, CedarYille, q nov
thriving Central Branch town, was
made the county seat. In November,
1872, the county seat WAS moved 70
Smith Center, where it has remained TO
this time. From the amount Of real es-
tate transactions last week, and the
prospects of securing TWO, and perhaps
three railroads, this year, she will re-
main the seat Of government Of Smith
county for ali time to come, and Jealous
rivals might as well bow to the ineVita-
bic, and take their medicine, although
hard to swallow, with friendliness.
The Central Branch missouri Paci-
fic) will be extended from Burr Oak,
to Smith Center, and the G. K. & N.
viii also push their line from Superior
20 Burr Oak, and thence west TO Smith
Center, Phillipsburg and Norton. The
B. & NJ. will also build south through
here. With these truths, together with
the fact that SS4, 900 WAS paid out to
owners Of real estate adjoining Smith
Center last week, is indication enough
that the boom has reached rs. There
was paid out $50, 900 for real estate in
town and within a mile of Smith Center
last week, and the boom has just com
menced.
1t is said Mr.. Sandison was met by
one who was constituted q committee
from an adjoining town, and persuaded
not TO invest in Smith Center property,
because, he said, the county seat con-
test was still changing fire." Mr.. San
olson asked said committee Of one il he
took him for a tenderfOot? He didn't
listen TO the committee Of one, but
made his purchases, paying cash for
same. Mr.. SandisOn, it should be re-
membered, has large land interests in
and adjoining the new Rock Island
town Of Horton, in which that COM
pany are also largely interested.
The new Bulletin building, erected
expressly for the publication OF this
journal ought to have been painted red
instead of the miserable color Of blue
However, j. Q. Royce, its editor, ought
to have known what he wanted better
than an outsider. The building is q
model of neatness, and in time it is the
wish of your correspondent that he
may make enough money out Of the
Bulletin to erect a house similar to the
Philadelphia Ledger building.
Capt. W. II. Nelson cashier Of the
First National bank since its organiza-
ton, has resigned, Mr.. Ed. Stevens
becoming his successor. Capt. Nelson
will devote all his time and attention
to the Pioneer, which paper he has
been connected with for many years,
The Pioneer will now be better than
ever before,
Theo. Shoemaker has been appointed
Treasurer Of Smith county the Office
having been made vacant by the death
of his father, Adam Shoemaker, who
died very suddenly last week. The ap-
pOintment is highly satisfactory, he
having been deputy under his father
for the past two years.
Active preparations are making for
lively building operations this spring
and summer, and several brick and
stone buildings will be erected by the
time the iron horse arrives in sight.
1t is safe to predict a population of
from :, 800 to 5000 before the close Of
the present year. Smith Center has
never before put on such city airs. All
on account of her Railroad prospects.
Town and county property has more
than dOabled in value, and in some in
stances trebled, in the last two months.
Strangers are hOoking into Smith Cen
ter daily, and most Of them purchasing
real estate.
Two hacks are run daily between
Harlan and Smith Center to accOmmo-
date the travel from the Central Branch
road to the county seat Of Smith
comfy.
On Monday last the Smith county
bank, the oldest in the county, was
converted into a National, and is now
known as the Smith County National
bank.
Most of the land purchased by E. W.
SandisOn is made out in the name Of
w. Z. Clark.
PHILLIP5BURG